Squirrel!

Tonight was movie night. Pops has my dear Trudy fixed up once again, so I decided to take her for a spin to the video store where Poppy and I picked up three movies.

We watched two of them--Julie & Julia and UP! And not only did Julie & Julia inspire me to blog as well as buy Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, but they both also had a common theme that I am pondering over in my mind. That theme is dreams, adventures, living.

Julie & Julia is about chasing after something. Doing something that to give meaning to your life and changing yourself in the process. UP! is about having dreams and chasing after them, wherever they may take you--even to Paradise Falls.

What I loved about UP! was that it had a much deeper theme than just chasing after your dreams. It showed how sometimes we need to let dreams go, sometimes we need to embrace a new dream. And sometimes what we thought we wanted wasn't what we really wanted at all.

I think about my dreams, the things I'm chasing after, and I wonder which of them I will fulfill and which of them I will have to give up along the way. Which dreams will I trade in for others that will ultimately be better than what I planned in the first place.

My heart cried tonight when Mr. Fredrickson finally has to let go of his house. My heart cried when I saw Julia Child struggle with not being able to have a baby. When dreams die, it is painful...there's really no way around that. And mourning a dream is important, but you cannot allow it to keep you from embracing another.

Mr. Fredrickson had to let go of his house in order to save everyone, but then he was able to embrace the new adventures that were in store for him. Julia had to accept that she would not have a baby, but then she was able to embrace teaching the average American woman how to cook.

Life is lived in the birth and death of dreams.

I have this thing about doors.

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  1. Hannah Elizabeth06 January, 2010

    "Life is lived in the birth and death of dreams."

    that is beautifully said. I might steal it for a song. I love this Lissa. You are truly my kindred spirit.

    MWAH!

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